END OF ARC 1: DAY 168 BATTLE

[asgardmods]

[The grey dim light of false dawn has just settled on the city when the sirens sound. The piercing shriek of a modern warning system begins, and within seconds is joined by the low, haunting wail of wood and bone horns from the Elven camp outside the Gate of Fire. A minute later, there is Thor's post to the network.

And now, as the sun slowly rises, the light reveals clouds of dust in the distance, far off to the North and West. In that time, the city will be awakening with a start. Anyone with connections to a god-supported group or to the elves will be roused and rushed off to their jobs. Folkvang comfort house will open its doors, revealing an interior cleared of equipment and converted into a shelter for those who must flee the incoming violence.

The whispers on the streets are of disbelief and fear. Is it really the end of days? Surely the walls will hold against any mundane army. Surely it will all be over soon... right? Healthy natives are saying goodbye to their loved ones "just in case". Perhaps you should be too.

Later, the armies arrive. First the enemy, made up of humans, monsters, and five dragons. The lesser giants look almost human, except for the flame or frost in their eyes and the warm or cool tint to their colouring. But the king of the fire giants is something else. He is tall and broad and strong, riding on a huge, splendid black boar. The queen of the frost giants is equally intimidating, in armor that looks made of glacial ice itself, seemingly too ornate to be practical but clearly worn as if it is. Her mount is a great white serpentine creature that radiates dangerous cold. The other kinds of creatures are uncountable in their variations, but all well armed.

They dwarf the small forces of Asgard and the forward units of the elves, but just as battle is about to break the sound of a great number of clockwork machines heralds the arrival of the full forces of Alfheim. They are joined soon by the modern outfitted soldiers of Utgard, and then the masses of people collide like conflicting waves of water. Above them fly the dragons, and one great flying ship that seems to have come from nowhere but fights on the side of the gods.

What will your characters do? Will they join the front lines? Hide in the shelter? Man the Arena-turned-war-hospital? There are a million things to do in a battle, but not even those hiding will escape the smell of gunpowder and metal and the sounds of battle.]


[ooc note: your characters are welcome to come up with any frost/fire themed monsters you like! They may not directly combat the giant king or queen. They may not fight dragons without first checking in with the mods in this post (and two dragons are already claimed). Try to consider that there will be a second battle, so you can vary what you're doing. Also make sure to read the plot post thoroughly, especially with regards to character death.

Make sure to include the rough time of day in the subject of your top-level comments, as well as if your thread is open or closed. This whole log will only cover Day 168. If you need mod participation/NPCing, please ask us asap and give us some allowance to be slow, since there's a lot going on.

There is a log for the downtime on days 169-170 here, and a full-event log for those staying in the shelter at Folkvang here. There will be a second pair of battle/downtime logs for the second battle (Day 171-172 with downtime on Day 173) posted on Nov 8.

Important note! There will be a lightning speed commentspam thread for taking down the most familiar dragon in this post beginning today at 6pm CST. At that time there will be a mod plurk to let everyone know we're starting. We will also ask those who can to join the AIM chat (asgardchat) at that time so we're all on the same page. It's a thread we want to get done from start to finish as fast as possible/within two evenings, due to mod business. Please don't feel left out if you can't participate in that thread. It's partly an experiment in seeing if this kind of thing works for us, and there's lots else you can do!

Have fun, everyone! If you have questions, please ask on the event post so that everyone else can see them/the answers. Thank you!]

Comments

[samantha_grey]

If everyone does their best, we're that much more likely to succeed. Really, it's just as important to have every sort of thing covered, instead of everyone trying to do the same thing.

[lookingfordragon]

Right, I'll focus on what's on the ground.

[She is mostly talking to herself. And she needs to try and focus on what she can do, instead of doing everything.]

[samantha_grey]

Someone has to. If your strength improves, you might look into maybe taking up javelins or spears. I bet you could probably throw pretty hard.

[lookingfordragon]

Throwing?
I've always fought up close, I don't think I've seen anyone who uses weapons like that...
[She'd never really thought about throwing weapons, and Kotomaru definitely wasn't suited for throwing.]

[samantha_grey]

Hmmm. Range does come in handy actually. This is why a lot of people have guns, you know.

[lookingfordragon]

Guns?

[From the rest of the conversation she could guess it was some kinda of weapon but that was it.]

[samantha_grey]

Huh? oh, you're from somewhere they don't have them? Hand-held thing. About this long if it's a pistol. You grip it, press the trigger and it fires a bullet. It's pretty common in my world.

[lookingfordragon]

So it throws...bullets for you?

[samantha_grey]

At a few hundred miles an hour, but yep.

[lookingfordragon]

...They sound dangerous...


{What.... just what. She's really not sure if she should be amazed or scared..]

[samantha_grey]

Well, yeah. That's the point. They're meant to kill people. It uses a small bit of explosives to do the firing. The bullet's small, but at that speed it's pretty dangerous.

[lookingfordragon]

O-oh...

[She just going to think about that and hope she never runs into one]

[samantha_grey]

Heh, don't worry too much about them. As useful as they might be, I'm not sure how much good they might be against a dragon, so we might not see that too often anyway.

[lookingfordragon]

It wouldn't be surprising if they had some sort of defence against them, if there that dangerous.

[samantha_grey]

Safe assumption. Always assume they have defenses against the bit stuff that's common.

[lookingfordragon]

Any I should be aware of?
[She hadn't noticed any trouble so far but...]

[samantha_grey]

Not that I'm aware of yet, but I'll let you know if I run into something like that.

[lookingfordragon]

Just as long as Kotomaru works on it I'm fine. [Even if Kotomaru didn't work she could just punch and run, she wasn't sure what Sam could do be she looked like she was doing okay.]

[samantha_grey]

Kotomaru? Who's Kotomaru? [Have a confused looking red-head.]

[lookingfordragon]

Uh.
[She is just going to lift her sword slightly.]
Kotomaru hasn't been able to a lot here but I can still fight with it.

[samantha_grey]

Eh? [Another confused look and then she looked at the blade, her eyes lighting up.] Oh! You name your blades. I'm not used to people doing that any longer. It's an old tradition in my world. Only a few weapons have names.

[lookingfordragon]

We have to learn their names to use them properly. unfortunately I haven't been able to use Kotomaru fully since getting here.

[samantha_grey]

What do you mean? Pointy end goes into the bad guy. It's not that elegant, true, but it should still get the job done.

[lookingfordragon]

You need to know a Zanpaktou's name before you can use it in it's true form.
It'd be a lot easier if Kotomaru was back to normal, it's been sealed since getting here.

[She hadn't heard it put like that before but she couldn't do much else without Kotomaru]

[samantha_grey]

Ok, wait, so the sword that Ichigo's carrying around isn't the true form then? I thought it was kind of weird that he had this black katana thing. Never seen a sword that color. But, if it's a magic weapon or something, that makes sense.